SeaFall Session 1

Here is our 2nd installment from www.iggygames.com. This one is about our first full session of SeaFall. SPOILER ALERT!

SeaFall Session 1

SeaFall game board

My SeaFall group gets together on Thursdays to play. With this Thursday being Thanksgiving, we got together on Wednesday to play the first game. It was a good game, in my opinion, however, I didn’t notice until after that I set the board up wrong, not adding all the millstone cards to the board, and thus we were not able to unlock the first box. While we wouldn’t have met that condition anyway, we may have played differently to unlock it. We also would have met other milestones and the game would have moved faster. As it was, it took us just under 2 1/2 hours to get game 1 played, this was also due to the times we had to look things up in the rule book. I’m sure by game 3 we won’t need to do this as often.

Ingrid Eld

We all needed to pick a new leader as at the end of the prolog you needed to rip up your leader. My new leader, Ingrid is keeping with the Norse theme, means Beautiful Goddess. My special ability is that for 2 coins, I can take all three merchant’s guild actions. Not once did this come in handy for me during the first game, it may help in later, but I may try and replace it as soon as I can. I’m not fully sure how I’m going to play Ingrid yet.

I played the first game mostly as a merchant. Bought and either traded the resources for cheaper buildings or sold them for gold. I tried one raid, and 1 explorer action, and failed on both. I think my notes may be messed up as I only sank once during this game, so I’m not sure how I failed both.

Outcome

Brian

Buildings

Port

Market

Gun tower

Upgrades

Raids = 1

Failed Raids = 1

Explorations = 1

Failed Explorations = 1

Ships Sunk = 1

Total Damage taken = 3

Tasha

Buildings

Upgrades

Raids = 4

Failed Raids = 1

Explorations = 1

Failed Explorations = 0

Ships Sunk = 1

Total Damage taken = 3

Chris

Buildings

Observatory

Gun tower

Upgrades

Intrepid

Raids = 0

Failed Raids = 0

Explorations = 2

Failed Explorations = 1

Ships Sunk = 1

Total Damage taken = 6

Brandi

Buildings

Port

Upgrades

Raids = 0

Failed Raids = 0

Explorations = 5

Failed Explorations = 1

Ships Sunk = 1

Total Damage taken = 10

Final Score

I didn’t keep track of how many treasures people bought, I know there were some 2 pointers bought in the game, and I know that helped Brandi win the game, again.

Brandi = 11pts
Tasha = 9pts
Brian = 7pts
Chris = 4pts

Brandi being the winner was able to upgrade her province, taking a new Appellation, then we were all able to upgrade 1 ship ability, and 1 of the advisers.

Final thoughts on Game 1

I really wish I would have set the board up correctly and had the milestones in, but it is what it is, and it didn’t mess us up too badly. I would have made the game much faster, however, and we may have been able to get in another game.

All in all, I think we all enjoyed the game. Chris and Tasha think they may know what the ‘mystery’ of the game is, and man do I hope they are wrong. If it does come out to that, I will probably give the overall game a rating of 1, no matter how much I enjoyed it.

Here is to the next game, and hopefully unlocking the first box this time!